Brush-holder.



E. B.WRIGHT.

BRUSH HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED OCT. 18. 19x7.

Patented Aug. 27, 1918..

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ERNEST B. WRIGHT, OF NEW ROCHELLE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TG'I-IANLON & GOODMAN I 00., OF NEW YORK, N. '31, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

BRUSH-HOLDER. Y

Specification of Letters-Patent.

Patented Aug. 2'7, 1918.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERNEST B. incur,

a citizen of the United States, residing at New Rochelle, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented cerand useful Improvements in Brush-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to brush holders for suspending paint brushes or the like in pots or pails. Such devices should be quickly adjusted for the purpose of hanging the brush in the paint pot when the brush is out of use, and should be adapted to hang'the brush in such a manner that the bristles will not press against the sides or bottom of the pot and so be deformed. The holder should also be so arranged as to be out-of the waywhen the brush is in use, so that the holder will not be in the way of the painters hand.

The object of my present invention is to provide a: holder which may be cheaply manufactured and readily mounted on the brush and which will efliciently perform the desired functions. By my invention, generally speaking, the holder is formed from sheet-metal and may comprlse a member adapted to slide on the upper surface of a flat-headed brush. Or'the holder may have a portion extending above the'top surface of the flat-headed brush with side portions extending down on both sides of the head of the brush. In either case, a guiding'slot or slots are provided with which cooperate pins mounted on the brush head, or other guiding and retaining means 'forfthe sliding holder are"emp'loyed'.. Means for look: ing or latching the holder in advanced and rear positions are also provided as by forming olfsetsin the guiding slot or slots with which the retaining pins coa-ct when the holder is either forward ofbjzi'ck. The holder is provided on its forward edge with a hook portion which may rest snugly against the face of the brushhead when in its backward or inoperative position.

For application'to another fOl'HrOf-b1L1Sl1,' such asfthe 'oval' or round head type of brush, the l'ioldermaybe' mounted on the handle of the brush and be pivoted thereto in place of'being slidably mounted as in the case of the fiat-headed brush. In this case, the sl de portions of tlie sheet-metal holder are pivotally secured to opposite sides of the handle and the transverse portion of the holder-which carries the hook is adapted to lie fiat against the front side of the handle when the holder is in inoperativeposition. To permit this effect, the handle of the brush may be provided with a recess in which the hook portion or the holder'may be pressed when the holder is out of use, the hook preferably being resilient and being forced into the recess to fri'ctionally retain the holder in its inoperative position.

In order that a clearer understanding of my invention may be had, attention is hereby directed to the accompanying drawings forming part'of this application and illustrating' certain embodiments thereof. In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a flat-headed brush suspended within a paint pot,' Fig; 2 is atop plan view of the brush shownv in Fig. 1, Fig. 3 is a partial side elevation of a brush having a" modified form of holder, Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the same, Fig. 5 is a partial side elevation of a round brush suspended in a pot by meansof a modified form of holder, and Fig.6 is a similar view to that of Fig. 5, but showing the holder in inoperative position.

Referring to the drawings, the brush shown in Figs. l and 2 comprises a handle 1, a rectangular head 2 and bristles 3, all of the usual type. The holder represented generally at 4 comprises a piece of sheet metal cut or stamped to form and having a transverse portion 5, extending above the upper surface 6 of the brush head. The transverse portion 5 is provided witha forwardly extending central portion 7, at the forward end of which is the downwardly extending hook 8, which is preferably formed with downwardly and upwardly eX- tending portions lyi'ng parallel and closely together and forming a somewhat resilient hook.

The side portions 9, 9are bent downwardly from the ends of the transverse portion and fit closely against the side surfaces of the brush head. Means are provided for coaction with side portions 9 of the holder to guide the latter and to secure the same to the brush head. Preferably, the side portions 9' of the holder are provided with for wardlv' extending slots 10, through which" eXtend headed pins 11, of which there i I of the brush head and transverse portion 5 should be two for each slot. Two of these pins may be used extending entirely through the brush head, as shown in Fig. 2, and extending through the slots in both of the side portions 9 of the holder.

Slots 10 may be provided with oflset portions in which the pins 11 may be slipped to lock or latch the holder in desired positions. No latch is necessary for the holder when in its extreme forward position; it may, however, be desirable in some cases to lock the holder in a partly advanced position in case the adjustment is found in correct for particular pots. For latching the holder in its rear position, the pins will be aimed with offset portions 12 formed in the upper edges of the slots, so that the pins will enter these offset portions and lock the holder against forward movement, it being necessary to lift the holder to free the pins from the offset portions of the slots in order to advance the holder. In this case, the hook 8 will rest snugly against the forward surface of the head of the brush, when the holder is in its rear posi tion, or, if desired, a slight recess (not shown) may be provided in the front edge of the brush head into which the hook is withdrawn when the holder is pushed back into its rearmost position.

The holder is shown in its operative position in Figs. 1 and 2, in which the hook 8 is shown as extending over the upper edge of a paint pot 13. It will be noted that the holder extends forwardly beyond the forward edge of the brush head a short distance only, when the holder is extended, so that the brush will be suspended in a practically vertical position in the pot with the edges of the ferrules 14 on the brush head contacting the interior surface of the pot, the hook 8 engaging the outer surface of the pot adjacent its upper edge and the bristles S'out of contact with the pot. In this form of device, the holder is slidable in the direction of the long dimension of the rectangular brush head, so that a considerable number of such brushes may be hung readily within a pot. The side portions 9 of the holder fit closely against the side surfaces of the holder is closely adjacent to the top surface of the brush head, so that the holder presents only a slight obstacle to the hand of the painter, when the holder is in its back or inoperative position, with the hook 8 mounted closely against the front surface of the brush head or within a recess therein.

A modified form of holder is shown in Figs. 3 and 4, in which the side portions 9 of the holder are omitted, the transverse portion 5 resting on the upper surface 6 of the brush head and being provided with a guiding slot 10 through which extend the pins 11, 11, which extend downwardly that shown in Figs. 1 and 2 is mounted on the handle 1 of a brush of the round or oval head type, this brush having the head 2. In this case, the side portions 9, 9 of the holder are not provided with slots, but are pivotally mounted on a pin or pins 17. The transverse portion 5 of the holder is integral with side portions 9 and joins the same together and is provided at its forward edge with the downwardly extending hook 8. The inoperative position of the holder is shown in Fig. 6, in which the transverse portion 5 of the holder is shown as lying close against the forward surface of the brush handle with the hook 8 re ceived within a recess 18 formed in the front of the brush handle. This recess may be so positioned that the hook 8 will have to be slightly forced into the same, the resilient hook yielding slightly so as to be retained therein by friction. The transverse portion 5 of the holder may, of course, be given a curvature to correspond with that of the front surface of the handle 1. When the holder is in its operative position as shown in Fig. 5, the rear edge of the transverse portion 5 may form an abutment to rest against the forward edge of handle 1, the holder being swung upwardly from the position shown in Fig. 6, so that the transverse portion 5 will extend horizontally, or at some other desired angle. In this case, the hook 8 should extend only a sufficient distance beyond the forward edge of the brush head 2, when the holder is in its operative position, so that the hook may be pressed over the edge of the pot to permit the brush to hang in a substantially vertical position in the pot.

It should be understood that my invention is not limited strictly to the exact details of construction illustrated, but is as broad as indicated by the accompanying claims.

What I claim is 1. In a brush, the combination of a brush head, a holder slidably mounted thereon to slide over the upper surface thereof, said holder comprising an integral sheet having a downwardly extending hook at its forward edge adapted to extend beyond the edge of the head and over the edge of a pot when extended, and having a guiding slot therethrough, and a pair of alined pins extending through said slot into the head, said slot having ofiset portions to receive said pins to latch the holder in a desired position,

2. In a brush, the combination of a brush head, a holder slidably mounted thereon to move horizontally over an upper surface thereof toward and away from an edge of the head, said holder having a downwardly extending hook at its forward edge, and guiding and retaining means secured to the head and cooperating with said holder, said holder being constructed to permit movement at an angle to its forward and back movement, at an end of its travel, into latching relation with said guiding and retaining means.

3. In a brush, the combination of a brush head, a sheet-metal holder slidably mounted thereon, having a transverse top portion above the upper surface of the head, terminating in a downwardly extending hook at the front edge, and downwardly extending side portions fitting over and slidably engaging the side surfaces of the head, and guiding and retaining means on the head,

cooperating with said ing side portions.

4:. In a brush, the combination of a frame member of the brush, a sheet-metal holder mounted thereon, having downwardly extending side portions engaging opposite sides of said frame member and a transverse portion terminating in a hook adapted to extend over the edge of a pot when the holder is in operative position, and means for movably securing said side portions to said frame member, said transverse portion being adapted to rest in contact with an exterior surface of said frame member when the holder is in inoperative position,

This specification signed and witnessed this 11th day of October, 1917.

ERNEST B. WRIGHT.

downwardly extend- M. S. GANG,

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